Your behaviour influences others through a ripple effect. A ripple effect works because everyone influences everyone else. Powerful people are powerful influences.

Learn to see things backwards, inside out, and upside down.

If you want to be free, learn to live simply.

Endless drama in a group clouds consciousness. Too much noise overwhelms the senses. Continual input obscures genuine insight. Do not substitute sensationalism for learning.

The leader teaches more through being than through doing. The quality of one's silence conveys more than long speeches.

Allow regular time for silent reflection. Turn inward and digest what has happened. Let the senses rest and grow still.

Silence is a great source of strength.

The wise leader speaks rarely and briefly. After all, no other natural outpouring goes on and on. It rains and then it stops. It thunders and then it stops.

Have respect for every person and every issue directed at you. Do not dismiss any encounter as insignificant.

Teach people to let go of their superficial mental chatter and obsessions. Teach people to pay attention to the whole body's reaction to a situation.

If you knew how the journey was going to end, you could afford to be patient along the path.

No one thought the Mayweather-Pacquiao fight would happen, but I had patience.

Abuse and neglect negate love. Care and affirmation, the opposite of abuse and humiliation, are the foundation of love. No one can rightfully claim to be loving when behaving abusively.

I am not Christ or a philanthropist, old lady, I am all the contrary of a Christ.

[on Emilio Estevez] Truly, my first love.

If people are hungry, ill-clad, unsheltered or diseased, nothing is so important as to remedy their condition.

Everything is about color. If you look at magazines and advertising and television, the thing you remember is the color.

... the agent provocateur of a good dinner.

Not I, but the city teaches.

I think that anyone who's pushed to do the very best that they can is privileged. It's a luxury.